push · leap, frisk

What it means

push (פּוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leap, frisk”.

To leap, to frisk (like an animal at play).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To bound and race like a horse or a calf.
2. To be scattered everywhere, with no one to gather them.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• are scattered ×1
• gallop ×1
• leap ×1
• you frisk ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Jeremiah×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Malachi×1

• Jeremiah 50:11

  Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,

• Nahum 3:18

  Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria; your nobles rest; your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to assemble them.

• Habakkuk 1:8

  And swifter than leopards are its horses, and fiercer than wolves of the evening; and its horsemen gallop, and its horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.

• Malachi 4:2

  But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings; and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.